Sync for Lemmy is coming too and that's how I heard of Lemmy! Excited to be on a fresh internet community, feels nostalgic in a way even though it's brand new
this post was submitted on 30 Jun 2023
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Best friggin news all day.
I've tried just about every android app for reddit and have firmly been a boost user since I tried it years ago. I was metlntally prepping myself for sync but now I may not have to!
I've been kind of expecting this move from a community person like Mr. Mayayo. I'm going to launch the rocket in a heart beat !
That's great. I've been using boost for years, can't wait to have them for lemmy!
This is great. Lemmy needs more 3P apps, as most people don't like using websites directly.
Boost is my favourite, so looking forward to getting this!
Awesome! I can't wait!
YES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Boost is my #1 app for Reddit. Such a beautiful and loved all the features in it.
LET'S GO!!
written from Boost for Lemmy
Oh mah lord
Let's fucking GOOOOOOOOOOOO!
YOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
Let's go.
Wait what, I thought he wasn't doing it, saying he was going to do smaller apps. I guess this is what he meant by "smaller apps"? xD
Yeah, he straight up said he wasn't going to do a Lemmy app, I'm confused.
Excellent, liked it in reddit, should be good here, can't wait!!!
That's also not a FOSS app, is it
Not a FOSS app.
Well up for this. The polish of Boost on top of the federated structure of Lemmy could be perfect.
If the app contain adds how good can be?? 😝
Boost for reddit is open source, I assume the lemmy version will also be open source. Also I think it's like $2 to get rid of ads forever.
IMHO open source developers should be paid for their work, if it must be ads then so be it.
Well if its opensource anyone can easly get ride of the adds. I agree with you that developers schould be paid but there is many ways to be paid we all fight for privacy and against adds on the internet using adblocks for example i personaly always pay for developers fairemail and typewise to rename few but i dont like to be forced to pay and in between my phone are establishing connections to the adds servers exposing ip addresse connection times and so on adds are not only adds there is a lot of metadata that can be extracted from adds. And finally the purpose of developing opensourse apps is to serve the community with more friendly apps than the big companies offers to us. But... its just me saying that....
It will be good feature wise, but privacy? 
That's probably due to the ad provider for the free version.
You should be able to disable any tracker so...
I'd appreciate if the dev could explain the need for these perms. I'm sure it's something innocuous, but it'd be relieving to hear why they're there.
Thanks for turning attention to those. I got curious and looked at the ones for Boost for reddit and they seem about the same. A bit funny to see that the settings for the app only show Notifications as a granted permission (and no other possible ones). Can anyone familiar with Android app development chime in with some details?
Why does it have to be so hard to find communities? Trying to add this, but it doesn't show up: https://lemmy.world/c/boostforlemmy
Should I just leave lemm.ee since it has trouble finding every single community?
When browsing communities from other instances you need to modify the link as follows:
Such a mess of a URL. I sincerely hope something else comes up to surpass Lemmy/kbin, or that the apps in development hide those kinds of messy bits.
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